spaces at ends of filenames or directory names on Win32

[Tim Roberts]

drobinow at gmail.com wrote:

>For example... tell windows to move a file named ' XXX ' (one space
>before and one space after the filename). Windows will complain that
>file 'XXX' does not exist. It's correct of course, 'XXX' does not
>exist,
>but ' XXX ' does indeed exist.
>
>Can anyone rescue me from this madness :(

Use double-quotes on Windows, not single-quotes.  Single-quotes are taken
as just another filename character.
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- Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.